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Half-tonne piece of Soviet rocket to crash back down to Earth in coming days

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Cosmos 482 was launched from the USSR 's spaceport in Kazakhstan in 1972 .

It was destined to land on Venus but the upper stage of the rocket failed and it left just the probe in orbit around the Earth .

Now, the heat-protected capsule is on a collision path with Earth , with it expected to hit around 10 May.

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